Given his extreme position, perhaps what’s strangest about Weissman’s attempted power-grab within the animal rights movement is his own diet. As Newsday described: “Tonight the freegans start at Garden of Eden, a Village health food store, where they find two whole fresh salmon in the trash outside, before heading west. They visit Century Market, Gristede’s, Lifethyme and other food stores along the way, if the trash looks promising.” [emphasis added] Salmon for a wannabe animal-rights leader?